Bunker Hill Community College

Tech Prep

The Metro Boston Secondary Postsecondary CVTE (Career/Vocational Technical Education) Linkage Consortium (formerly named the Metro Boston Tech Prep Consortium) is funded under the federal Perkins IV Title II Tech-Prep Education through a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.  The Consortium provides activities and services that coordinate the linkage of career and technical programs from high school to college.  Bunker Hill Community College serves as the lead agent for the consortium whose members include Roxbury Community College and eighteen (18) local area high schools.  

The Metro Boston Consortium located at Bunker Hill Community College is one of the state's thirteen (13) Secondary Postsecondary CVTE Linkage consortia that are all led by one of the State’s community colleges.  Springfield Technical Community College and Holyoke Community College have also combined to comprise one consortium with Holyoke Community College serving as the lead college.  

Metro Boston Secondary Postsecondary CVTE Linkage Consortium Members

College Consortium Members

• Bunker Hill Community College*
• Roxbury Community College
  

High School Consortium Members

Boston Public Schools

• Arts Academy
• Brighton
• Burke (Jeremiah E.)
• Charlestown
• East Boston
• Horace Mann
• Madison Park Technical Vocational
• Media Communications at the West Roxbury
  Educational Complex
• Noonan Business Academy
• Odyssey
• The Engineering School
  

Brookline High School

Cambridge - Rindge School of Technical Arts

Medford Vocational Technical High School

Somerville High School

Watertown High School

Consortium Activities and Services for Students, Teachers and Guidance Counselors
The Metro Boston Secondary Postsecondary CVTE Linkage Consortium has delivered programming opportunities that have served to encourage students to pursue a college education.  These activities and services have also enriched the student’s career and educational experiences in their chosen career and educational pathways.  The following opportunities have been afforded for students, teachers and guidance counselors through their involvement in Tech Prep:

Articulation Agreements (High School to College Articulation Agreements)
The Metro Boston Secondary Postsecondary CVTE Linkage Consortium at Bunker Hill Community College provides guidance, direction, implementation, development and renewal of articulation agreements for our high schools with Bunker Hill Community College and Roxbury Community College.  Since we are funded under the Perkins IV, Title II, Tech-Prep Education, our major emphasis is on articulation agreements for Perkins Chapter 74-Approved and Non-Chapter 74 approved high schools.  Bunker Hill Community College has 40 currently active articulation agreements with local high schools.  High school articulation agreements for Bunker Hill Community College include the following associate in science degree programs: biotechnology, engineering, entrepreneurship, culinary arts, network technology and administration, business administration, media communications, graphic arts; and certificate programs in network technology and administration and allied health.

Download the Request for Articulation Agreement Credit Form - Cisco Academy - Networking Programs Only

Download the Request for Articulation Agreement Credit Form

College Placement Testing for High School Students
A major emphasis for the Consortium is on the college placement test, the Accuplacer.  Tech Prep has provided assistance for the preparation and testing of high school students on the Accuplacer.  Professional development and training has been provided through our member college’s Assessment Offices for high school teachers, guidance counselors and administrators. 

• Tech-Prep Programs at the College
• Non-Traditional by Gender Career and Educational Programs for Students (These programs have encouraged students to seek careers that are non-traditional for their gender (e.g., females in engineering and science, males in nursing, etc.).
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Workshops
• On-Site College Visits
• Career Specific Educational Conferences and Workshops (Culinary Arts, Healthcare, Business, Computer Information Technology)
• Promotion of Dual-Enrollment for Tech Prep Students through the STAND (Students Taking Action for Nursing Diversity) Program and the College’s Dual-Enrollment Program  
• Over 100 Tech Prep students were enrolled in dual-enrollment courses during the 2008-2009 academic year at Bunker Hill Community College
• Annual Community College Fair
• Professional Development for Teachers and Guidance Counselors (also includes training on non-traditional careers for students)

Summer Career Days Program

How about free college classes?  Join us for Year 2 of the ‘Summer Career Days Program at BHCC’ for two weeks beginning July 11 through July 22 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily.

Bistro & Baking
You could be the next “Food Network Star!”  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a professional chef?  Join us this summer as we develop your inner chef.  Grab your hat and apron and appetite and see if you can stand the heat.  Working with two professional chefs, you will explore the tools, techniques and skills involved in a professional kitchen.  You will also cover such topics as fruit and vegetable carving, cake decorating, bread baking and soup preparation.

CSI/Paralegal Studies
Prison Break, Lock Up, Law and Order. You watch the TV shows, but have you ever seen a live trial or want to work with the police to put the bad guys in jail?  Now is your chance to speak to a judge, a prosecutor, a defense attorney and a real life sheriff.  Speak to a gang and AWOL apprehension officer.  Go visit a jail and work with corrections dogs and sit in a command vehicle that is used for riots.  Take a video and paste it on YOU Tube.  All this and more, come join us for the courts, corrections and you.    
Explore a career in the growing Paralegal field.  Some of the work done by paralegals resembles those exciting crime dramas. Paralegals help draft legal documents, interview witnesses, investigate facts, draft documents, and research the law.

Web Developing & Gaming
You’ve seen them, you’ve played them!  Do you want to learn how to make them? We are talking about computer games and computer simulations.  Bunker Hill Community College is offering a two week program on the creation and animation of 3D models, 3D characters, 3D vehicles, and 3D landscapes as part of the game development process.  Not only will you create, texture, and animate 3D models but you will also learn how to make a 3D character speak your own words in your own voice.  And if gaming isn’t for you then consider the world of Web Development.
Enroll in our two week program to explore the principles and processes of Web Development.  This program will expose you to the tools, techniques and skills employed in the development of rich, dynamic, and successful web sites.  This will cover such topics as web page coding, web page presentation, web dynamics, e-commerce principles, principles of web graphics, and multimedia.

Introducing i-PAD® and i-Phone® “Apps”
In addition an introduction to the design and development of mobile computing “apps” (applications), student will have fun and interesting “hands-on” experiences in developing these applications.  They will gain a good working knowledge of the various tools used in the development of these “Apps.”

For more info, please contact Sharon Caulfield  617-228-2339 - scaulfield@ bhcc.mass.edu,  or Patrick Crozier (617-228-2389 or pcrozier@bhcc.mass.edu.  Again, the program is free. 

This program has been specially designed for students who will be high school juniors, seniors and college freshmen in the upcoming 2011-2012 academic year.  Each day will include one hour of math review in preparation for college entry and the college placement test.  Application deadline is June 23, 2011.

Download the "BHCC Summer Career Days Program" Application